The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Believe it or not, photographing liquid pour and splash is a specialty. In alcohol advertising, photographers who can capture those tiny drops of liquid as they splash in mid-air make a lot of money. I have a daughter, Sam, who will be a professional photographer soon and she should know that. If she can capture ... (more)
The redesign of the blog’s pages is not a whim. It’s a response to technological advances, ever-shifting reading habits and the increasing popularity of mobile internet. If you like to view this blog on a tablet (like an iPad) or a smartphone (like an iPhone), you’ll be happy to know that the pages now render ... (more)
This photography tip is so obvious and I’m surprised that many people forget it. It doesn’t even require any special skills, just a camera and a steady hand. It has often been said that a good photo is not necessarily one that follows strict technical standards. It’s not always about composition or lines or depth-of-field. ... (more)
I forget the title but there’s a line that goes, “You don’t know, you can’t know what I’ve done to be here.” That’s exactly how I feel after dealing with server overload for the past week or two. For all you bloggers dying to upgrade to WordPress 2.5, you might learn a thing or two. ... (more)
Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.
In 2003, a time when I hadn't heard of the term "blog", I started a recipe website at cooking.houseonahill.net using a now defunct content management system that ran on ASP. Ok, never mind the geek talk, I'm sure you're not interested in that. The contents easily multiplied and, in 2004, I moved the food site to pinoycook.net. Always unhappy with the fact that the dot com versions of houseonahill and pinoycook weren't … (click here to read all »)
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